Question
An 1840 coffee blight led Dominica (“dom-in-EE-kuh”) to export these fruits, which were planted on Montserrat’s sugar estates by the Quaker Sturge family to showcase free West Indian labor. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name these fruits whose use in grog to prevent scurvy inspired a common nickname for Royal Navy sailors.
ANSWER: limes [accept limeys; accept key limes, West Indian limes, Mexican limes, or Citrus × aurantifolia; prompt on citrus fruits; reject “lemons”]
[10h] This author extolled White English management of a Dominican (“dom-in-EE-kin”) lime and coffee plantation. The Trinidadian linguist J. J. Thomas denounced the “audacity” of this man’s racist West Indian “fables.”
ANSWER: James Anthony Froude [accept Froudacity or Froudacity: West Indian Fables by James Anthony Froude]
[10m] Specific term required. To decry Black suffrage in Jamaica and Trinidad, Froude alleged that Haitians ate babies as part of this Afro-diasporic tradition. The “Saint Lucia horror” was blamed on this healing tradition after the Leeward Islands banned it in 1904.
ANSWER: obeah [or obeahism, obi, obia, obayi, obeya, or other variants; accept myal; accept Obeah Act]
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Nationals | 2024-04-21 | Y | 24 | 9.17 | 75% | 17% | 0% |
Data
| Berkeley A | NYU | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Berkeley B | Chicago C | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Toronto A | Brown | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Chicago A | Columbia A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Duke | Columbia B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Cornell A | Chicago B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Toronto B | Florida | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Illinois | Yale A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Indiana | Minnesota A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Michigan | Iowa State | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Kentucky | Chicago D | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Johns Hopkins | Maryland | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| McGill | Cornell B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| North Carolina B | Minnesota B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Waterloo | North Carolina A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Georgia Tech | Northwestern | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Penn | Arizona State | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| WUSTL A | Purdue | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Yale B | Rutgers | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Texas | Stanford | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Truman State | Harvard | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Vanderbilt | South Carolina | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Ottawa | Virginia | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Claremont Colleges | WUSTL B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |